David Carey is a resident voice and text director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been a senior voice tutor at RADA and was previously Principal Lecturer of Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. Rebecca Clark Carey is the head of voice and text at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She was a senior voice tutor at RADA and has extensive theatre experience as an actor and voice coach.They are the authors of The Vocal Arts Workbook + DVD (2008) and The Verbal Arts Workbook (2010).

This illuminating book-and-video package takes a practical approach to unpicking a language whose richness is matched by its often forbidding intricacy.

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction Chapter 1: Language and Action: Chapter 2: Language in Action: Imagery, Sound and StoryChapter 3: Rhythm and Meter Chapter 4: Rhetoric and Style Chapter 5: Preparation for Performance Appendix 1: Vocal Warm-Up Appendix 2 : Curriculum Choices Appendix 3: Professional Histories Appendix 4: Bibliography and ResourcesLinks to Workbook Videos Index

David Carey is a resident voice and text director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been a senior voice tutor at RADA and was previously Principal Lecturer of Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. Rebecca Clark Carey is the head of voice and text at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She was a senior voice tutor at RADA and has extensive theatre experience as an actor and voice coach.They are the authors of The Vocal Arts Workbook + DVD (2008) and The Verbal Arts Workbook (2010).

This illuminating book-and-video package takes a practical approach to unpicking a language whose richness is matched by its often forbidding intricacy.

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction Chapter 1: Language and Action: Chapter 2: Language in Action: Imagery, Sound and StoryChapter 3: Rhythm and Meter Chapter 4: Rhetoric and Style Chapter 5: Preparation for Performance Appendix 1: Vocal Warm-Up Appendix 2 : Curriculum Choices Appendix 3: Professional Histories Appendix 4: Bibliography and ResourcesLinks to Workbook Videos Index

David Carey is a resident voice and text director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been a senior voice tutor at RADA and was previously Principal Lecturer of Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama. Rebecca Clark Carey is the head of voice and text at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She was a senior voice tutor at RADA and has extensive theatre experience as an actor and voice coach.They are the authors of The Vocal Arts Workbook + DVD (2008) and The Verbal Arts Workbook (2010).

This illuminating book-and-video package takes a practical approach to unpicking a language whose richness is matched by its often forbidding intricacy.

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction Chapter 1: Language and Action: Chapter 2: Language in Action: Imagery, Sound and StoryChapter 3: Rhythm and Meter Chapter 4: Rhetoric and Style Chapter 5: Preparation for Performance Appendix 1: Vocal Warm-Up Appendix 2 : Curriculum Choices Appendix 3: Professional Histories Appendix 4: Bibliography and ResourcesLinks to Workbook Videos Index